We have an opportunity for a motivated developer to join our Data Infrastructure team and contribute to the build-out of our proprietary options market-making trading platform. Your role will focus on high performance data parsing and how we transfer data to make it usable for the data analysts.

What you’ll do as a C++ Developer at Akuna:

• Data collection, real time data parsing and data storage
• Implement high quality services
• Engage traders and developers and articulate ideas clearly
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews
• Work on cross-functional teams
• Be mentored by Senior Developers to learn the trading system and domain
• Solve complex problems and troubleshoot issues

Qualities that make great candidates:

• 2-5 years of experience in developing performant, scalable applications in C++ (and at least 2 years with C++11)
• A curiosity and demonstrated interest in C++14 and beyond
• Experience with databases and data storage (HDF5 and Elasticsearch preferred)
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Math or equivalent
• Experience with concurrent programming (e.g. multi-threaded, reactor, etc.)
• Experience with multi-core programming paradigms
• Understanding of distributed systems, data structures and algorithms
• Understanding concepts of networking (i.e. TCP, UDP, multicast)
• Capable of writing unit tests and functional tests
• Ability to break down large problems methodically
• Experience with Linux and Python